Questions tagged [metonymy]
For questions about the substitution of a word referring to an attribute for the thing that is meant, as for example the use of "the crown" to refer to a monarch. Compare synecdoche.
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I live IN Australia
As I know one of the way for useing ON is when we are in a big place, and we are on the floor like:
I'm on the train.
And we use IN when we are in a small place, surrounded by walls or anything like ...
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Is "known offenders" in this context "a computer? Spoilers for the movie "Silence Of The Lambs"!
This context come from the movie "Silence Of The Lambs" Spoilers!!!
"Crawford: Starling, Starling, we know who he is, and where he is. We're on our way right now.Johns Hopkins came up ...
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Can we "go to a movie"? Is it grammatical?
Please tell me, can I say "I go to a movie (I mean a film)"? Because we go to a place not to a film. I saw this sentence in "Tactics for listening":
I went to a really dumb movie.
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Is star walking a metonymy of space walking?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYsz1hP0BFo
Is star walking a metonymy of space walking? In the lyrics, we see "star walking", but it doesn't make sense, so I was wondering if it was a ...
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Is this a metonymy?
I suppose if a book features a face it usually indicates it's lower
quality.
https://deliabattie.wordpress.com/tag/book-covers/
Can you say "book" instead of "book cover"? Is this ...
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Metonymy of curtain
Immediately, the heavy velvet folds hid the stage from the
audience, Farrar was up on her feet, and she and Caruso were having it
out between them, whilst I tried.
I am wondering if we can ...
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My everything is yours, my mind, my body, my possessions, my life [closed]
In a long distance strong close platonic love relationship as mother and son, would the proper English term for this statement be all rights given pertaining to him and his life or is there another to ...
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What does the Daily Mail's headline “inch ahead…” and “…a Marxist in No 10” mean?
from The Daily Mail, December 14, 2017
Just as the newly confident Tories inch ahead in the polls,11 self-consumed malcontents pull the rug from under our EU negotiators, betray their leader, party ...
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